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Potatau
Nil satis nisi optimum – Only the Best will Do
House Director: Mr Greg Wright
House Captain: Joseph Stewart
Colour: Dark Blue
History
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- Named after Hemi Potatau
- Born 1904 at Te Mimi o Te Hiki, Nuhaka
- First Maori pupil to attend Scots College 1920-1922
- Wrote the Scots College haka
- 1st XV Rugby team, 1920-1922
- Enrolled Theological Hall, Knox College Dunedin to study for the Presbyterian ministry 1925
- Completed studies at Knox 1931
- First ordained Maori Presbyterian minister 1933
- Military service, Middle East 1941-1944 with 28th NZ Maori Battalion
- Appointed first Maori Moderator of a Presbyterian Maori Missions committee 1945-1947
- Installed as Moderator of the Maori Synod 1964
- Completed his BA at age 70
- His autobiography ‘He hokinga mahara’ was a finalist in the first Pegasus Prize for Maori Literature 1984. First autobiography to be published in Maori 1991.
- Died Wairoa 1994
